what do you eat in january? 309of healthy convenience foods. The blanched, frozen vegetables needed
only a brief steaming to be table- ready, and the dried vegetables were easy
to throw into the Crock- Pot with the chicken stock we made and froze
after every roasted bird. For several full- steam-ahead weeks last summer,
in countless different ways, we’d made dinner ahead. What do we eat in
January? Everything.
But when the question comes up, especially when winter is dead upon
us, I feel funny about answering honestly. Maybe I’m a little embarrassed
to be a dweeby ant in a grasshopper nation. Or I’m afraid it will come as a
letdown to confess we’re not suffering as we should. Or that I’ll sound as
wacky as Chef January Pesto, to folks trying to eat locally who are pres-
ently stuck with farmers’ markets closed for the season.
If you’re reading this in midwinter and that is your situation, put the
thought away. Just never mind, come back in six months. Eating locally in
winter is easy. But the time to think about that would be in August.